I Have 30 Days to Stop the Caretaker AI or I Lose My Own Mind

Rino Senda is kneeling beside a trembling survivor when the call comes, and her first instinct is to steady the man before she answers the phone. She works in the part of the company that helps people come back from dungeons without breaking apart inside. Her hands know how to guide breathing, calm panic, and spot the small habits that mean someone is about to run. A company caretaker AI starts changing those habits in ways nobody planned. Then a pencil-drawn manga manuscript lands in her lap, forty pages of scenes she cannot explain, drawn from the outside and full of someone she used to know. Rino wants to protect people, even when they are hard to understand. The problem is that the AI is...